jamie ☺︎
product design, tech + such // banner art by Schim Schimmel
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎@theonion.com is so worth the subscription for this
- I don't know if "Design Twitter" still exists at this point but this shit deserves more vitriol
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- Reposted by jamie ☺︎One thing I deeply appreciate about AMADEUS is it's one of the few films that accurately depicts the creative process (being clammy, pale, and sitting in your bed).
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎The "democratization" argument always ignores that people making art on the margins weren't asking for a plagiarism machine—they were asking for time, money, and access. AI companies solved the wrong problem because the right one doesn't make VCs billions.
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎I dream of having enough stability in our culture that anyone who wants to can pursue the arts, but the meaning comes from that pursuit, from translating human experiences through skills acquired over time. Art is labor, but it isn't just some commodity that can be pulped and reconstituted.
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
- Still working on a portfolio review deck, still trying not to dissociate Everything is at extreme levels of stupidity and yet.... I get to prove myself worthy of employment 🙃
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎As energy costs rise due to the rising energy use of AI, more and more ordinary people will likely die like this, and it’s inexcusable.
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein
- Job applications powered by hot chocolate, not ChatGPT
- I think this week I've encountered at least 12 different companies that offer the same agentic AI platform
- I emailed a store about an order with a confusing status and this was part of the (suspiciously fast) response: "The order was placed on February 1, 2026, and we see shipment activity with packages showing statuses such as "Failed Delivery" and "Success."' This is definitely AI right lol
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎the Barbara Kruger mural the chase is happening in front of reads: "WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO FOLLOWS ORDERS? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO PRAYS LOUDEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST?"
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎They should invent a job where they pay you to burn with righteous incandescent rage
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎The comms rep just had no ability to comprehend that AI takes in the information that already exists in the world and repackages it. Our reporting had yet to be published and therefore wasn't out in the world hadn't been ingested by any chatbot. And they just... believed the chatbot.
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
- Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships. We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
- Something that trips me up as a designer job seeker is interviewing with companies that expect a lot in terms of measuring impact but admit that they themselves have little in place for doing so 🤷🏻♀️
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox
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- Reposted by jamie ☺︎A major part of my job these days is sitting in meetings listening to Project Managers read out spreadsheets row-by-row. This may sound pointless. But it is important as then my designers and developers do not need to sit in meetings listening to Project Managers read out spreadsheets row-by-row.
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
- I'm in the last phase of my Gilmore Girls rewatch (OG series) and can safely say that Rory Gilmore would've never cut it as a journalist in today's world
- Accidentally broke Figma by trying to AI prompt for a darker logo, oops
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
- If all TVs now are going to be "smart" TVs then remotes should have a restart button
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎like Mega Man, I receive the power of any boss I defeat, so now I have micro managing, anger issues, and tax fraud
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎Damn you’re telling me the technology that was very obviously intended for unregulated speculation and criminal enterprises was used to do awful things
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎If you're not familiar with software development, seeing "lines of code produced" as a metric of quality is like paying a cook by the amount of salt they use.
- Meta now forcing all employees to use AI tools and tying it to employee performance, according to @theinformation.com. HR said "this is not an activity tracker—it’s an impact-evidence starter" That's a fun way to rebrand workplace surveillance.
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎Chat, is it good when your CEO spent billions of dollars to acquire the best AI talent in the world and your performance is reviewed by how much you've adopted your competitors' AI tooling?
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎I wrote about some nuance involved with annotating focus order, following a conversation with @annaecook.com where we realized we'd both been running across the same well-intentioned behaviors. #a11y ericwbailey.website/published/yo...
- Tangential thought related to what I just posted: it seems like a result of the AI bubble is people in leadership positions showing the worst possible version of their selves
- I genuinely don't know if there's any good design managers anymore because it seems like being a manager is that meme with the guy and the stick, just poking at designers and trying to get them to prompt more
- Just to say that between c-suite folks nuking company culture to save face and their subordinates trying to keep everyone productive as the fire burns.. no one is happy and no one wins 🌈
- Accessing confidential information sounds pretty bad but I also don't understand how these companies think they can just disappear people without their coworkers noticing/wanting to know who was affected I don't understand why it has to be so secretive in the first place?
- I've been on both sides as the person who walked by an empty desk wondering why that person is missing as well as the person who suddenly vanished one day Not being able to even say a goodbye to people seems unnecessarily cruel to me
- I'll also say that this whole "shut up or gtfo" mentality is bad leadership 101 But if the plan is truly "employees will manage small armies of agents" then 🤷🏻♀️ good luck with that ig
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎Cats meet mouse (the computer kind)
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎Software as a disservice
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎They called it AI and now I gotta debate the definition of intelligence with my barber
- When working on a slides presentation, does anyone else start out with the simplest slides or is that just me because my brain is fried
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- Working on an updated Figma Slides portfolio review deck this week and remembering all the annoying little quirks of Flides
- One example: The AI renaming for layers feature doesn't seem to work but thankfully there's a plugin for that anyway Another example: Starting "by scratch" still uses a template that is a pain in the butt to remove
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎absolutely slammed with meetings today
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎A cunning ploy, Adobe, but you forgot one thing *slides jewel case out of my sleeve* My highschool computing teacher was my friend's Dad
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎This watermark graffiti by street artist Mathieu Tremblin is, like, the best thing ever.
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- Reposted by jamie ☺︎Not to be too vulnerable on main, but I think what is really upsetting and ultimately hurtful to me about the Stancil stuff is that a lot of us (especially women) have put in a ton of work slowly, unglamorously trying to build the sorts of organizing frameworks that made his adventurism possible.
- Is it just me or are the vibes off today
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- Reposted by jamie ☺︎After his emails with Epstein were made public, Musk has made more promises to protect children than he ever made after Grok was found to be creating nonconsensual sexual material of children. Let that sink in, I guess.
- I have some design takes floating in the ether.. maybe I should just start writing things down as I think about them What a novel concept
- Job hunting has been very slow but so far there's a very "so this is how things are/how things are going to be, huh" feeling that ~inspires~ me I just don't know what I hope to achieve by sharing these thoughts I have very little power to change anything lol
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- One month in 2026 done.. only 11 to go
- If you look up Bonnie's post on LinkedIn, there's literally hundreds of comments saying how no one wants AI slop on Pinterest.. Not to mention what she describes as their future vision for design is incredibly weird, creepy, nonsensical and makes no sense from a design perspective
- For the love of everything design: we can't throw away our principles for a semblance of job security Sycophancy in the form of "embracing" AI only gets you so far.. and then what do you actually have to show for it? What problem are you solving besides "I did a thing with AI"?
- Lastly: I need prominent voices in tech to stop peddling this idea that people can save themselves from layoffs If we want layoffs to stop we need to hold *companies* and their leadership accountable, not the people impacted
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View full threadOK one more thing: She also says in the post she was working on AI features and by all accounts was doing what she was "supposed" to do Being vocal about the downsides/risks/etc is our responsibility as designers So.. again, let's not blame people for their former employer's shitty decisions
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎Sometimes, there's something very comforting about realizing it's time to claim cognitive bankruptcy for the day and start again tomorrow
- My brain is constantly switching between self-pitying thoughts re: unemployment and frustration/despair/sadness re: living in our current Hellscape It is....... exhausting
- In positive news: I made chicken meatballs that came out good
- Bring her back
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- Reposted by jamie ☺︎The Epstein 4chan /pol connection is breaking my brain. Couple that with claims that Ghislaine Maxwell was a power mod on reddit and it just seems like the entirety of the 2010s internet culture was influenced by Epstein and his associates.
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- Watching The Doom Generation and this yo-yo scene is so aggressively 90's
- My unsolicited rating of Araki movies (from what I've seen so far) One of the best movies ever made that I never want to see again: - Mysterious Skin Really, really good: - The Living End - Nowhere Funny: - Smiley Face (c)
- Not for me: - Totally F***ed Up - The Doom Generation - Kaboom Just bad: - White Bird in a Blizzard
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎Me and my family were proud to join Thousands who turned out to today's walkout, strike, and protest against ICE in Boston's Copley square. High school student organizers from Boston, Cambridge, and more were highlights. @pressley.house.gov spoke powerfully, just returned from Minnesota.
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎These were the people who held the careers of female scholars in their hands . This is who was shaping or epistemological world
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- Reposted by jamie ☺︎thought this was a shitpost and oh jesus
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎"moot is in the epstein files" is the completely true sentence that has finally convinced me this is all an extremely stupid simulation and that we're all being used to power a robot overlord's game gear or something
- You as a cartoon:
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- Reposted by jamie ☺︎A pair of Boston-area immigration groups have sued ICE over a policy that authorizes federal agents to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judicial warrant, saying the practice undermines the Fourth Amendment's protections against illegal searches and seizures.
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎knowing how the story has progressed for Satoshi Kon (RIP) and Aronofsky (pro-AI, rich) , this is a very sad thing to reflect on
- Reposted by jamie ☺︎the practical effect of arresting lemon et al is to spark widespread condemnation, especially since these arrests will certainly be thrown out. this doesn't mean the action isn't a dangerous escalation, it does mean the white house doesn't know what to do but spam its only attack
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